Giant Squid Rig

[Eli]

OT, there are hundreds of "accepted" species of prehistoric animals for which the collective evidence amounts to nothing more than a few teeth or a hip bone or a verabrae. The total sum of evidence for many of these beasts would fit very neatly in a shoe box...and based on said evidence, palaeontologists are quite comfortable extrapolating what these creatures looked like, how they behaved, etc. etc.

Contrast that with the hundreds of eye witness accounts, foot prints, hair samples, photo and videographic evidence, as well as indigenous knowledge (west coast First Nations consider the Sasquatch as real as the wolf and the bear) regarding 'bigfoot'.
As with dinos, there is a lot of evidence for the past existence of forest apes (http://www.macroevolution.net/prehistori...uF53F9ic). I along with many others believe that populations of creatures similar to these exist today.